From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 18:39:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6901065676 for ; Tue, 13 May 2008 18:39:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) Received: from mercury.karoo.kcom.com (mercury.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.61]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6BFB8FC20 for ; Tue, 13 May 2008 18:39:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,480,1204502400"; d="scan'208";a="314513758" Received: from unknown (HELO glynthebearded.millingtons.org) ([82.152.120.109]) by mercury.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 13 May 2008 17:09:56 +0100 Received: by glynthebearded.millingtons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B539F22842; Tue, 13 May 2008 17:10:56 +0100 (BST) To: Tijl Coosemans References: <86tzh2oc1t.fsf@nowhere.org> <200805131605.37330.tijl@ulyssis.org> <86fxsmgtng.fsf@nowhere.org> <200805131752.12767.tijl@ulyssis.org> Organization: Central Church, Torquay, U.K. X-Now-Playing: There's a deathly hush in the close tonight! X-Liturgical-Date: Optional Memorial: Our Lady of Fatima, A.D. 2008 From: Glyn Millington Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 17:10:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200805131752.12767.tijl@ulyssis.org> (Tijl Coosemans's message of "Tue\, 13 May 2008 17\:52\:11 +0200") Message-ID: <864p92p4kv.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compat library error: ELF file OS ABI invalid X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:39:27 -0000 Tijl Coosemans writes: > On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:34:11 Glyn Millington wrote: >> Tijl Coosemans writes: >>> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:14:54 Glyn Millington wrote: >>>> FreeBSD 7.0 release, ports currently up-to-date >>>> >>>> >>>> Trying to launch Linux Open Office 2.4 I get the following error >>>> message >>>> >>>> >>>> ,---- >>>> | /usr/compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.bin: error while >>>> | loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6: ELF file OS ABI >>>> | invalid >>>> `---- >>>> >>>> Now I *think* that what it ought to load is >>>> >>>> /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 >>>> >>>> but it goes for the FreeBSD X extension lib instead. >>>> >>>> Can anyone help me to fix this? >>> >>> If /compat/linux/usr/local doesn't exist, perhaps making it a >>> symlink to X11R6 does the trick. >> >> Spot on!! Many thanks :-) >> >> What I don't understand is why that works, when >> /compat/linux/etc/ld.so.conf points at the right place in the very >> first line! > > I suspect some OO executable or lib has some search paths hardcoded > which the linker checks before using the ldconfig cache. If you want > you could check this with: objdump -p | grep RPATH That gets me a objdump: soffice: File format not recognized > Also, when a Linux program opens a file (i.e. libXext.so.6), FreeBSD > first tries to find it under /compat/linux, then under /. So linker > tries to open /usr/local/lib/libXext.so, but it didn't exist under > /compat/linux so it got the FreeBSD libXext.so. OK - tghatnk you, that bit I *do* understand. many thanks Glyn